IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71278 accession number: C.1079-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large animal figure of a lion standing on a rectangular plinth. Its right foot is raised on a ball, its tail curls onto its back and its tongue protrudes from an open mouth. The tiny figure of a soldier lying prostrate is relief moulded on top of the plinth, between the lion’s right feet. The whole piece has been dipped in a rich brown glaze which highlights the relief features, where the glaze coat is thinner. The sides of the plinth slope down to a slightly larger base and are decorated with a rope pattern around the top, a tooth pattern at the bottom and a vine leaf frieze around the front and two sides. The underside is recessed and unglazed. object type: Pale buff earthenware figure, moulded with modelled additions and coated with manganese brown lead glaze. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr Frost at Hitchin on 26 November 1908, for £1, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71278 PEOPLE ------------------- Vacca, Flaminio Medici SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded, modelled and lead glazed. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels